Chapter Summaries

The Heaven Origin Race launched a counterattack against the Human Race after learning Shen Long was away, while the Flying Feather Race sought aid from the Thunder Roar Race after Shen Long killed Wu Qing. Shen Long returned to Tianji City and explained that the Flying Feather Race had invaded the Tianji Realm to escape a resurgent insect threat in the Bailing Realm.

• Yin Jie ordered most of the Heaven Origin Race Spirit Transformation cultivators to gather an army and attack Three Saints City, while Yin Qing and Yin Shi stayed to guard the Heaven Origin Mountain Range.
• Wu Hao learned Shen Long had killed Wu Qing and sent Yu'er to ask the Thunder Roar Race for troops and experts to deal with Shen Long.
• Zhao Sheng and the other Human Race cultivators discussed Shen Long's pursuit of the Flying Feather Race before Shen Long returned to Tianji Hall.
• Shen Long reported that he had killed a Flying Feather Race Spirit Transformation cultivator and Bian He, bringing his total kills in the battle to four Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Shen Long told Zhao Sheng that the Flying Feather Race invaded the Tianji Realm to escape ferocious insects that had devastated nearly half of the Bailing Realm and threatened to break free of their seal.

Shen Long explained that the Flying Feather Race would likely attack the Tianji Realm again because of the Diamond Insects, then left for the Heaven Origin Realm to investigate the Heaven Origin Race. There, the Snow Race had helped the Human Race repel a counterattack, and its leaders asked about Shen Long.

• Shen Long told Zhao Sheng and the others that a fifth rank Diamond Insect had once killed three Spirit Transformation cultivators and that the Flying Feather Race had attacked the Tianji Realm to avoid unleashing the insects.
• Lu Yingying revealed that Bian He was a newly advanced Spirit Transformation cultivator of the Heaven Origin Race, and Shen Long decided to go there to investigate its plans.
• Mo Wuya advised keeping Shen Long's departure secret, while Zhao Sheng gave Shen Long a Storage Bracelet before he left.
• In the Heaven Origin Realm, Lin Xiang and Qin Yue thanked Xue Yao, Xue Sheng, and the Snow Race for helping repel the Heaven Origin Race's counterattack.
• Xue Sheng asked about Shen Long, and Lin Xiang said he had gone to support the Human Race in the Tianji Realm and had not yet returned.

After the Heaven Origin Race’s defeat, its leaders agreed to stay on the defensive and considered yielding territory rather than risk another battle. Shen Long returned to the Heaven Origin Realm, where Yuan Rui told him the Snow Race’s support had prevented the Heaven Origin Race from gaining an advantage.

• Yin Jie and the other Heaven Origin Race leaders discussed their losses, the Snow Race’s intervention, and their dwindling strength.
• Yin Jie explained that help from the Lingxu Realm was unlikely, and the group agreed to defend rather than attack again.
• Wu Yu asked Lei Ting to send troops to support her side, but Lei Ting demanded the promised item first.
• Liu Yuruo reported that she had found no news of Fifth Rank Monster Ape Essence Blood, and Yuan Rui instructed her to keep searching.
• Shen Long returned from the Tianji Realm and told Yuan Rui that the Flying Feather Race had been driven back for now.
• Yuan Rui said the Snow Race’s support had kept the Heaven Origin Race from gaining an advantage and praised Shen Long for killing four Spirit Transmutation cultivators.

Shen Long traded pills with Wu Xiao for the Barbarian Race’s Puppet Armor Talisman, then obtained Fifth Rank Monster Ape Essence Blood from Fang Ju in exchange for refining Golden Flame Pills. After asking his allies to look for Thunder Attribute fifth rank monster beasts, he returned to his residence to begin pill refining.

• Shen Long learned that Master Ice Silkworm and Han Yuwei were away at a gathering of Nascent Soul Cultivators, then went to meet Wu Xiao at the Heaven Barbarian Garden.
• Shen Long told Wu Xiao about his exploits in the Tianji Realm and traded two Seven Treasures Glazed Pills and five Nine Flames Pills for the Puppet Armor Talisman.
• Wu Xiao gave two of the Seven Treasures Glazed Pills to Bi Xin for Bi Shan and the other Barbarian cultivators, hoping they would advance to the Spirit Transmutation Realm.
• After Yuan Rui told Shen Long that Li Wenbin had brought a visitor with Fifth Rank Monster Ape Essence Blood, Shen Long met Fang Ju and agreed to refine Golden Flame Pills using his own Golden Flame Grass.
• Shen Long asked Li Wenbin and Fang Ju to watch for Thunder Attribute fifth rank monster beasts, gave Li Wenbin two Purple Marrow Essence-Lingering Pills, and then began refining pills in his Alchemy Room.

Twenty years after the war stalled, the Heaven Origin Race allied with the Flying Feather Race and Thunder Roar Race and prepared to counterattack the Human Race at Three Saints City. Shen Long continued cultivating and caring for his spirit beasts before setting out to collect a newly refined Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure from Han Feng.

• Yin Jie agreed to launch a counterattack after the Flying Feather Race and Thunder Roar Race offered their aid, and the allied forces marched toward Three Saints City.
• Shen Long finished cultivating after taking more than twenty Nine Flames Pills, though he remained in the early Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Shen Long visited Thunder Peng and the Nine-Headed Ghost Dove, both still at the Late Fourth Rank, and fed them spirit herbs.
• Shen Long checked on the Late Fourth Rank Ice Flood Dragon and the thriving spirit herbs on the fifth floor of the Ten Thousand Beast Tower.
• Han Feng told Shen Long that his requested Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure had been refined, and Shen Long went to pick it up.

Shen Long received the Golden Sun Shield from Han Feng, but an attack on Three Saints City interrupted their meeting. Facing Wu Hao and Yin Hu in battle, Shen Long survived their coordinated Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure assault and burst from underground, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Shen Long accepted the Golden Sun Shield from Han Feng and asked whether he had found any Dragon-Suppressing Stone.
• An alarm announced an enemy attack, and Shen Long and Han Feng joined the defenders on Three Saints City's walls.
• The Heaven Origin Race and Flying Feather Race launched a counterattack, forcing the Spirit Transformation cultivators to battle outside the city.
• Wu Hao and Yin Hu confronted Shen Long with fire spears, tornadoes, the Gan Xin Staff, and a Dragon-Suppressing Stone-infused Cyan Giant Brick.
• Shen Long transformed into a Yellow Giant Ape and withstood the combined attacks of the Cyan Giant Brick and Thunder-Controlling Wheel before bursting from a fissure in the ground.

Shen Long used deception and the Soul-Devouring Bell to kill Yi Yue and Yin Hu, then pursued the fleeing Wu Hao. Elsewhere, he intervened as Lin Xiang faced Yin Jie and a silver-robed Thunder Roar Race cultivator.

• Yin Hu lured Shen Long into an attack with a Blood Soul Talisman, but Shen Long had used a Puppet Armor Talisman to evade the trap.
• Shen Long surprised Yi Yue, killed her with the Soul-Devouring Bell and Yellow Giant Ape, and captured her Nascent Soul in a Cyan Jade Bottle.
• Shen Long killed Yin Hu after defeating his Life-Substitution Treasure, then pursued Wu Hao using the Thunder Peng's Golden Feather Wings.
• Lin Xiang, wounded after a surprise attack by a silver-robed Thunder Roar Race cultivator, confronted the man alongside Yin Jie.
• Shen Long attacked the silver-robed cultivator and dropped the Dragon-Suppressing Seal toward Yin Jie, who recognized his arrival.

Shen Long routed the enemy cultivators, helping the Human Race win another costly battle. After agreeing to refine healing pills, he fed the Thunder Peng a Fifth-Rank Demon Core and ten-thousand-year Golden Thunder Grass in hopes it would advance.

• Yin Jie tried to escape Shen Long, but Shen Long shattered his defenses and destroyed his body; the silver-robed man collected Yin Jie's Nascent Soul and then fled after Shen Long broke his arm.
• Shen Long and Lin Xiang supported the other cultivators, and their forces killed two more Spirit Transformation cultivators as most enemies fled.
• The Human Race won the battle but lost Qin Yue, Qi Xiao, and Lu Yingying, while five enemy Spirit Transformation cultivators fell, including three killed by Shen Long.
• At Three Saints Hall, Lin Xiang asked Shen Long to refine two batches of healing pills, and Shen Long agreed.
• Shen Long fed the Thunder Peng a Fifth-Rank Lightning Dove Demon Core and ten-thousand-year Golden Thunder Grass, then took a pill to heal his injuries.

After the Heaven Origin Race’s failed counterattack, Yin Qing rejected abandoning the Heaven Origin Realm and sought reinforcements and powerful fifth-rank talismans to counter Shen Long. Thirty years later, Shen Long left a meeting in Three Saints City to witness Thunder Peng’s attempt to break through to the fifth rank as its tribulation began.

• Yin Qing, Yin Shi, Tuna, Tuo Shan, and the other Heaven Origin Race cultivators discussed their heavy losses and the threat Shen Long posed.
• Wu Zhu proposed retreating to the Purple Eye Realm, but Yin Qing refused to surrender their homeland and planned to request reinforcements.
• Yin Qing ordered his people to seek powerful fifth-rank talismans targeting the body and divine soul, offering Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasures in exchange.
• A wounded Diamond Insect in the Bailing Realm vowed revenge against the Flying Feather Race and the Thunder Roar Race.
• Thirty years later, Shen Long met with Li Wenbin and Zhao Sheng in Three Saints City, then abruptly left after sensing an urgent matter.
• Thunder Peng told Shen Long it was about to reach the fifth rank, and a vast thundercloud formed as the first lightning bolt struck.

Shen Long’s Thunder Peng survived its fifth-rank tribulation, while the Heaven Origin Race discussed plans to contain Shen Long and feared the Human Race’s growing strength. Shen Long obtained a talisman to stabilize space and prepared to pursue a Fifth-Rank Ice Flood Dragon once the Thunder Peng recovered.

• The Thunder Peng endured four Four-Colored Divine Lightnings and advanced to the fifth rank, sharing a surge of spiritual power with Shen Long.
• Yin Qing, Yin Shi, and Bian Rong discussed trapping Shen Long, the sealed Diamond Insect, and the danger posed by unstable space around the Ice Flood Dragon.
• Shen Long thanked Xue Yao for refining a Seven-Star Jade Universe Talisman and discussed his unsuccessful attempt to make Supreme Pills.
• Shen Long visited the Ice Flood Dragon in the Ten Thousand Beast Tower, fed it two thousand-year-old Mysterious Ice Grass plants, and said he would hunt a Fifth-Rank Ice Flood Dragon after the Thunder Peng recovered.
• Shen Long began refining pills in the Alchemy Room.

Heaven Origin Race and Big Dipper Pavilion cultivators in the Lingxu Realm responded to the conflict in the Lower Realm, while Shen Long agreed to help the Void Spirit Race hunt a fifth rank Demon Fox in exchange for its corpse and temporary use of the Void Spirit Mirror. The chapter left the Heaven Origin Race preparing to plan an attack after seven Spirit Transformation cultivators descended to the Lower Realm.

• Yin Xin ordered Bian Ji to send Spirit Transformation cultivators to the Lower Realm to find a missing treasure and aid their clansmen.
• Yu Shanshan learned that the Heaven Origin Race had suffered heavy losses but ordered Liu Dong to press the Human Race to finish them off.
• Shen Long refined twenty-four High-Grade Nine Flames Pills and learned that the Void Spirit Race had arrived to support the Human Race.
• Cha Sen asked Shen Long to refine Illusion-Breaking Pills to help defeat a fifth rank Demon Fox in the Jade Void Realm.
• Shen Long agreed to help kill the Demon Fox in exchange for its corpse and a temporary loan of the Void Spirit Mirror, then left with Cha Sen.
• Yin Hao arrived in the Lower Realm with six other Spirit Transmutation Mid-Stage cultivators and ordered the Heaven Origin Race to plan against the Human Race.

Yin Hao led seven Lingxu Realm cultivators in a counterattack that crushed the Human Race forces in the Heaven Origin Realm, while Shen Long went to help the Void Spirit Race fight a fifth-rank Demon Fox. The Human Race survivors scattered as Yin Hao ordered a hunt, and Shen Long remained beyond the defeated army’s reach.

• Yin Hao rejected plans to seize other realms and ordered the allied army to gather for a counterattack in the Heaven Origin Realm.
• Suo Yu summoned Shen Long and Cha Sen to discuss defeating a fifth-rank Demon Fox, then agreed to join them after it attacked another Void Spirit Race settlement.
• Yin Hao and his seven companions helped defeat the Human Race forces at Three Saints City, killing twelve Spirit Transformation cultivators and driving the rest into flight.
• Yin Hao ordered Yin Qing to organize a hunt for escaped Human Race and Snow Race cultivators before the army dealt with a fifth-rank Flood Dragon.

Shen Long and his allies killed the Silver-Eyed Illusion Fox, but news of heavy losses in the Heaven Origin Realm forced them to return. In the Lingxu Realm, Yu Shanshan ordered elites to investigate the reversal and search for Cai Lei’s treasure.

• Cha Sen was caught in the Silver-Eyed Illusion Fox’s illusion, and Suo Yu was nearly dragged into its mouth before Shen Long revealed himself as the true bait.
• Shen Long transformed into a Yellow Giant Ape and killed the Silver-Eyed Illusion Fox with one punch, then gave its Essence Soul to Suo Yu as promised.
• A green-robed elder reported that many clansmen’s Life Soul Lamps had gone out in the Heaven Origin Realm, so Shen Long and his companions left to investigate.
• Liu Dong told Yu Shanshan that the Human Race had suffered heavy losses and that the Spatial Node between the Green Plum Realm and the Heaven Origin Realm had been destroyed.
• Yu Shanshan ordered Liu Dong to send elites to the Lower Realm, resolve the crisis, and search for the treasure Cai Lei had taken there.

Chu Buyu fought off Heaven Origin Race cultivators while the allied Human Race forces faced defeat, and Yin Hao and Yin Yue discussed their gains and suspicions about Spirit Enlightenment Pills. With the route to the Heaven Origin Realm destroyed and many cultivators’ Life Soul Lamps extinguished, Big Dipper Pavilion disciples arrived in Green Plum Island to learn what had happened.

• Chu Buyu used the Three Flood Dragon Token and other treasures to kill three Heaven Origin Race cultivators, then left hoping Shen Long would return safely.
• Yin Hao told Yin Yue that the fifth rank Ice Flood Dragon had gained human speech after consuming a Spirit Enlightenment Pill, and they suspected Cai Lei had brought such pills and other treasures to the Lower Realm.
• Jiang Xueying told Shen Long, Suo Yu, and Cha Sen that the Spatial Node to the Heaven Origin Realm had been destroyed and that Lin Xiang’s Life Soul Lamp had gone out.
• Shen Long sensed approaching Spirit Transformation cultivators, and Xu Qingyun arrived at Green Plum Island with five Big Dipper Pavilion disciples led by Huo Tianxing.
• Huo Tianxing asked about the situation in the Heaven Origin Realm, and Jiang Xueying said they could not reach it and only knew that many Life Soul Lamps had gone out.

Shen Long and the others agreed to travel through the Yin Underworld Realm toward the Heaven Origin Realm while Huo Tianxing investigated Cai Lei’s appearance in the Jade Void Realm. In the Heaven Origin Realm, Yin Hao and Yin Yue speculated that Cai Lei had used avatars, false bodies, or scattered wealth to evade the Big Dipper Pavilion.

• Huo Tianxing introduced himself to Shen Long and explained that his Fifth-Rank Seven-Orifice Insect could sense the strength of divine sense.
• Jiang Xueying shared information about neighboring realms, and Shen Long explained that the known Spatial Nodes from the Gan Yang Realm to the Heaven Origin Realm had been destroyed.
• Suo Yu revealed that the Jade Void Realm had a Spatial Node to the Yin Underworld Realm, and Huo Tianxing decided the group would travel there before continuing to the Heaven Origin Realm.
• Wang Yuli asked about Cai Lei, and Suo Yu recognized his portrait as a man who had once slaughtered people in the Jade Void Realm.
• Huo Tianxing asked the group to keep their search for Cai Lei secret, then departed by silver flying boat with Shen Long, Suo Yu, and Cha Sen.
• Yin Hao, Yin Yue, and Bian Xiao discussed the Diamond Insects’ origins and speculated that Cai Lei had used avatars or false bodies to mislead the Big Dipper Pavilion.

Yin Yue, Bian Xiao, and Yin Hao planned a search for Cai Lei’s contingencies across nearby realms. Huo Tianxing’s group entered the Heaven Origin Realm, learned that seven Heaven Origin Race cultivators led by Yin Hao had arrived, and headed for Heaven Origin City to confront them.

• Yin Yue proposed searching neighboring realms for traces of Cai Lei, and Yin Hao ordered the Purple Charm, Golden Scale, and Thunder Roar Races to search their own realms.
• Huo Tianxing’s group subdued a Ghost Race elder in the Yin Underworld Realm and learned of a Spatial Node to the Heaven Origin Realm and a looted Ascension Cave Abode possibly connected to Cai Lei.
• Huo Tianxing left Wang Yuli behind to search with the elder for Gui Xuzi, then led the others through the Spatial Node to the Heaven Origin Realm.
• Shen Long discovered that seven Spirit Transmutation Mid-Stage cultivators from the Heaven Origin Race had descended to the Lower Realm, led by Yin Hao.
• Huo Tianxing dismissed the suggestion to bring Wang Yuli and ordered his group to fly directly to Heaven Origin City to confront the Heaven Origin Race cultivators.

Shen Long and Huo Tianxing rescued Ye Hongyao and learned that Heaven Origin Race Spirit Transformation Cultivators were purging Human Race cultivators. They infiltrated Heaven Origin City as Huo Tianxing’s group launched an assault, but Yin Hao and the city’s defenders had anticipated their plan.

• A crimson palm and two Yellow Lights rescued Ye Hongyao and her companions from the golden-shirted man and Purple-Skirted Woman, while the attackers were secretly controlled by Heart-Controlling Insects.
• Shen Long reunited with Ye Hongyao, learned the survivors were scattered, and gave her two Spirit Treasures before she and the others left for safety.
• Huo Tianxing sent Shen Long and Junior Brother Lin into Heaven Origin City aboard a Purple Flying Boat while the rest prepared to attack from outside.
• Shen Long and Junior Brother Lin entered Heaven Origin City disguised as the returning Bian and Madam Tu, while Huo Tianxing’s force approached.
• Huo Tianxing attacked the city, but Yin Hao and more than a dozen Spirit Transformation Cultivators appeared and revealed they had anticipated the infiltration.
• Huo Tianxing unleashed more than a thousand silver flying swords as Cha Sen and the others attacked, and the golden-robed youth transformed into a giant ape before silver lightning struck at them.

The Yellow Giant Ape and the Golden-Robed Youth fought Yin Hao’s forces as the battle destroyed the city’s formation. After the Yellow Giant Ape was wounded by the Golden Brick, it fled, and Bian Xiao, Yin Shi, and the Ice Flood Dragon pursued it.

• The Yellow Giant Ape and the Golden-Robed Youth slaughtered Foreign Cultivators while Yin Hao summoned a Three-Eyed Blood Toad and a fifth rank Ice Flood Dragon.
• The Ice Flood Dragon froze the Yellow Giant Ape and the Golden-Robed Youth, but they broke free and helped destroy the formation with a Fifth Rank Array-Breaking Talisman.
• Bian Xiao sent Diamond Insects against Shen Long and the Golden-Robed Youth as the Ice Flood Dragon and other cultivators attacked the Yellow Giant Ape.
• The Yellow Giant Ape killed two Diamond Insects, but the Golden Brick struck it and sent it flying.
• The wounded Yellow Giant Ape escaped, and Bian Xiao, Yin Shi, and the Ice Flood Dragon chased after it.

Shen Long used his Thunder Peng fusion to defeat Bian Xiao’s Four-Winged Golden Crow and Ice Flood Dragon, then faced Bian Xiao and Yin Shi as they prepared to attack. Bian Xiao wondered whether Shen Long’s Life-Bound Spirit Bird had mutated into a Thunder Peng.

• Shen Long lured Bian Xiao and Yin Shi to a remote plain, where he merged with the Thunder Peng and killed Bian Xiao’s Four-Winged Golden Crow, capturing its miniature form in a Cyan Gourd.
• Shen Long fought the Ice Flood Dragon with lightning and the Dragon-Suppressing Seal, killing it and collecting its miniature form in another Cyan Gourd.
• Bian Xiao and Yin Shi arrived and realized Shen Long had merged with his Life-Bound Spirit Bird rather than used a Transformation Art.
• Bian Xiao merged with his Thunder-Winged Flame Lion while Yin Shi sent the Golden Giant Brick at Shen Long.
• Shen Long called down silver lightning against Bian Xiao and Yin Shi, and Bian Xiao wondered whether his bird was a mutated fifth-rank Thunder Peng.

Shen Long fought Bian Xiao and Yin Shi with the Thunder Peng’s help, killing Yin Shi and forcing Bian Xiao to flee. Shen Long pursued Bian Xiao after he escaped with a Life-Substitution Treasure.

• Bian Xiao warned Yin Shi that Shen Long’s Life-Bound Spirit Bird might be a mutated Golden-Winged Wind Peng, then attacked Shen Long with a Red Sound Wave.
• Shen Long separated from the Thunder Peng and transformed into a Yellow Giant Ape, joining forces with the Thunder Peng to attack Bian Xiao and Yin Shi.
• Shen Long used the Soul-Devouring Bell and the Thunder Peng’s lightning to distract Bian Xiao, then smashed through Yin Shi’s defenses and killed him.
• Bian Xiao fought back with his divine ability and treasures, but the Thunder Peng’s Golden Thunder Spears struck him and forced him to escape with a Life-Substitution Treasure.
• Shen Long returned to human form, merged with the Thunder Peng, and pursued Bian Xiao as the two disappeared in flashes of golden and silver thunder.